West Germany: New Direction

All over West Germany, amateur bookmakers were willing to
give high odds that the West German election campaign was
rolling along in an old, familiar directiontoward one
more smashing success for the man who had won three times before:
doughty Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, 85. Not even the energetic charm of
the Socialists' new candidate, West Berlin's 47-year-old Mayor Willy
Brandt, seemed likely to make a dent on Adenauer's Christian Democratic
Union with its twelve-year record of booming prosperity and close ties
with the West. Running far ahead in the polls, the Christian...